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tiramichu

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  • Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky

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  • I remember reading a story a while back about someone who owned a legit CS version with a proper serial and activation.

    They had to change computer, and in doing so had to reactivate Photoshop, but it wasn't working. They contacted Adobe support and explained the situation but support basically told him nope, not a chance, we aren't helping you. You need to subscribe to new Photoshop.

    So Adobe accepted that yes, he bought a perpetual licence for Photoshop and that yes, the reason it isn't working is the online activation, but they still refused to help.

    Scumbags.

  • Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones

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  • It's common, and especially so on devices that don't have batteries which are intended to be user-removable - which is pretty much all new phones.

  • Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones

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  • Unlike laptops, many phones simply won't turn on without a battery connected.

  • Steam does what Nintendoes and Nintendon't

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  • Steam has this crazy concept where as a game gets older, you don't have to pay as much for it as when it was new! Pretty wild, I know.

  • X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research

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  • Centralisation makes things easy.

    If it takes more than 1 minute to onboard to a new service, and especially if you have to overcome any learning barrier (such as what 'instances' are and how to choose one) then the vast majority of people will immediately throw that option out and won't even consider it.

    People like bluesky specifically because it gives them something almost identical to what they had before.

  • Best error handler

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  • Back in my days working as .NET developer on Windows 7, I came into work one morning to find a colleague fuming that his machine had died on him.

    He spent the whole morning reinstalling Windows and getting his environment set back up, and then pulled the branch he was working on, happy to finally be done with setup and get back to work. Ran his test suite and bam, machine crashes!

    It was only at that point the penny dropped. We took a look at his branch, and sure enough he'd accidentally written a test that, when ran, deleted his entire C: drive!

    That particular lesson made me very careful when writing any code that does things with the filesystem.

  • South Korea's President Yoon ousted by Constitutional Court

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  • As the video suggests, it's an impending problem in many places in the world, US and UK included.

    And the bitter truth is that all of us could have avoided this, if not for the insatiable greed of the 1%

    If the wealth earned from economic growth was spread fairly, we could all be working half the hours we do now, with all the time for socialising and family we could want.

    And the real irony is that when people have more free time, they will spend their time and money on the culturally enriching things that the government is otherwise being forced to try and subsidise and give grants to keep afloat. Visit historical sites. See a play, pick up a creative hobby, eat out at independent small restaurants.

    But instead we are working longer and longer hours for less, leaving us with no time for anything, and that sends all our surplus money into the exact industries that are exploiting us. 11PM depression impulse buys from online megacorps, and food delivery through gig economy apps where the delivery person gets next to nothing and the app reaps the rewards.

    People are stretched to breaking point. It's inevitable that at some point, this is all going to collapse.

  • The Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption. | Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, explains what made the late 19th century gilded.

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  • Yep, that's specifically the meaning :)

    Golden = Made of gold

    Gilded = Covered in a thin layer of gold

    The gold and the thin layer was the 1%-ers, with rampant corruption and harsh conditions for everyone else.

  • Trying to buy anything with USB-C Power Delivery: Listing a million devices instead of the output voltages / amperage

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  • This is mostly the fault of what people search for.

    90% of your average buyers don't go on shopping sites and search "20W USB-C PD Charger" they go on and search "Samsung S22 charger" or whatever they've got.

    Sellers are incentivised to design the listings around that, or they simply won't get the clicks.

  • No Connection, No Flush

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  • Didn't ingest any, but it's still there somehow

  • Nut nut

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  • Seabrook crisps immediately take me back to playing on the swings and slides in a pub beer garden on a warm summer afternoon

  • Nut nut

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  • I confess I have a secret love for pom bears, despite my age being long out of the single digits XD

  • Nut nut

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  • Yeah. Looking at this diagram as a British person it's like the US stuff is our entire selection and none of the alternative brands exist here :(

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  • But maybe I enjoy that.....

    (Amazing saying, though)

  • Media Do Distributor Sells MyAnimeList Site to Web3/AI Company Gaudiy

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  • I just exported my MAL list, and I suggest others do that too, as a backup. (View your list, there is an export button at the left side)

    I don't exactly know what this news means and I dont intend to stop using MAL immediately, but if this is a signal for the beginning of the end for MAL then I wouldn't be surprised if they remove the export ability at some point, to try and stop people from leaving.

  • Media Do Distributor Sells MyAnimeList Site to Web3/AI Company Gaudiy

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  • https://anilist.co/

    You can export your list from MAL and import it there.

    I personally literally just now did that - so I can't actually give a review yet of how decent anilist is or isn't, but I have friends who use it.

    I won't stop using MAL right away but I wanted to get my bases covered.

  • From a Lufthansa mail titled ”you are eligible for an upgrade"

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  • If you don't succeed then you presumably won't pay.

    I still hate it though. The "colour coding" of the offer dial too, encouraging you to make an overpriced offer in the "green" range.

    Get fucked. I hate this blind bidding nonsense. Offer me a price upfront, and I'll tell you if I want it or not.

  • 74% of EU citizens think that their country has benefited from EU membership

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  • As a citizen of a former EU country (UK, of course) I think that too.

    I'm still salty about Brexit.

  • Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it

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  • The UK is about to ban disposable vapes, but I fear it may achieve little.

    What the legislation does is to define what "reusable" means, and demand that vapes must meet that.

    In reality, I suspect that manufacturers will simply adjust their strategies to produce vapes that are "technically" reusable and rechargeable and meet the law in a bare-minimum way, but really are intended to be used exactly once, just like disposable ones were, and that's exactly how they will continue to be treated by consumers.

    Cost will probably go up 20% to cover it, but that's all, and in the end even more material will be going in landfill.

    In my opinion, what the legislation should have done is to set an absolute minimum price on the cost of a vape pen. That would be very heavy-handed, but it would actually create the strong financial motivation required to force consumers to genuinely treat the vape pen as something they will re-use.